Vanessa Runs is the author of The Summit Seeker: Memoirs of a Trail-Running Nomad and Daughters of Distance: Stories of Women in Endurance Sports.
Based on analyses of Clementine and Earth-based radar imaging of the Moon, the authors conclude that the summit of Malapert Mountain near the South Pole has the best combination of factors for a sunlight-dependent lunar base.
The frozen bodies of three Inca children were discovered by Johan Reinhard and the author of this paper on the summit of mount Llullaillaco, at an elevation of 6715 m, at the world's highest archaeological site.
The historian David Reynolds, the author of "Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century," told me this week that "personal summits" — those aimed at establishing mutual understanding more than deal-making — are "high risk".
On the first day of the summit, poet-author Terry Tempest Williams and her student Alisha Anderson focused on the reality of grief experienced through connection to a lost land.
Fourth, in addition to their review of the three commissioned synthesis papers, and the commentary and recommendations of the summit experts, the authors consulted several key documents on large-scale, national CHW programmes published since 2013, as well as other literature relevant to the strategic components of the integrated approach.
Robert Mads Anderson is a mountain guide, Everest summiteer and author of Seven Summits Solo, To Everest via Antarctica and Antonovs Over the Arctic.
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, the author of the Saudi proposal, has said he will use the Beirut summit meeting to present the initiative formally.
Unlike previous Family Leadership Summits, which had speakers like David Noebel, the author of the 1965 classic Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles, this was a relatively restrained gathering.
The opening of the summit was delayed.
Our account of the summit is here.
